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8. Children and Youth Affairs

An independent review to take place of the cost of quality childcare in private and community settings – and ‘support’ introduction of subsidised high quality childcare for children from 9-36 months (but no detail of by how much and how and when).

New system to be introduced to support afterschool care for school-aged children – plan says this should be provided in school buildings.

10. Education

€500 million for subventions including speech therapists and psychologists.

A three-year strategy within 100 days.

Increasing the mandatory schooling age to 17 and a new school completion plan.

Non-denominational schools to reach 400 by 2030.

An Education Ombudsman who parents can complain to on foot of a decision by a board of management.

No small school to close against parents’ wishes.

11. Crime Prevention, Justice and Equality

Source: RollingNews.ie

Garda numbers to rise to 15,000 (no date by when).

Double the Garda Reserve.

Increased CCTV on roads and urban centres.

The Legal Aid Board will be able to compel criminals to contribute.

Public Defender system to be examined within six months.

Electronic tagging for those on bail at request of gardaí.

Violent home robberies may carry a mandatory sentence.

Post-release supervision of sex offenders.

A reform of Direct Provision.

Wage transparency will require companies with 50 or more to complete a wage survey.

12. Agriculture and the Marine

Lowering the cap on the Basic Payments Scheme from €150,000 to €100,000.

Focus on the beef markets of Turkey and Egypt.

€300 million to improve and modernise the beef herd.

13. Climate Change

Source: Sam Boal

The plan says that Ireland should be “repositioned to give global leadership in this area”.

The new government will agree Ireland’s first statutory National Low Carbon Transition and Migration Plan within 6 months.

Establish a National Dialogue on Climate Change so that there’s much better engagement with citizens and communities about the energy policy decisions that affect them.

Work with local authorities to improve the carbon footprint of social housing, including the replacement of oil heating with other fuels such as natural gas or woodchip where possible.

Update the planning guidelines for wind farms within 3 to 6 months to offer a better balance between the concerns of local communities and the need to invest in indigenous energy projects.

Up to 8,200 hectares of new forest a year by 2020.

€430 million for flood mitigation initiatives to protect at-risk areas. This new government will spend more on flood relief over the next 5 years than has been spent in the last 20.

Voluntary property relocation scheme for properties which are affected by repeat flooding.

14. Investing in Society: Urban Regeneration

Cut the cost of childcare, increase the number of subsidised childcare places and introduce a second free pre-school year.

Provide support for the Men’s Shed network.

Fund schemes to encourage disadvantaged young people and make them more employable.

Minister for Housing will ramp up the supply of private housing.

Minister for Housing will accelerate the delivery of the €3.8 billion on social housing.

Minimum wage increased to €10.50 per hour by 2021.

A new Working Family Payment that “promotes work over welfare” by supplementing, on a graduated basis, the income of a household.

15. Ireland and the World

Source: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

Buy a new naval ship.

A 20-year strategy for the Irish language to increase the number of speakers every day and to make it more visible in Irish society.

Support EU/UN efforts to tackle radicalisation outside the EU’s borders

16. Political and Constitutional Reform

Source: Leah Farrell

Hold a referendum on Article 41.2.1 on a woman’s life in the home, Article 40.6.1 on blasphemy, Ireland’s participation in the Universal Patent Court, and giving the Ceann Comhairle constitutional standing.

A Citizens’ Assembly within six months to look at a limited number of issues (not just constitutional ones), including the Eighth Amendment, fixed term parliaments, and the possibility of ‘super referendum days’ with lots of referendums on one day.

Government to consider directly elected mayors in cities

New system to monitor committee attendance and participation.

More technical groups to be allowed to smaller parties and independents get a fuller role in the Dáil and on committees.

A new committee with TDs from each party and grouping to agree the Dáil’s weekly agenda.

No more guillotining of bills unless it’s urgent. The Attorney General will have to sign off on any proposals to guillotine a debate on a bill.

Votes to be held at fixed times to support family-friendly working arrangements, plus the introduction of abstentions.

Reforming the Budget.

Establish an Electoral Commission to a) examine voter registration process and see if PPS numbers could be used to automatically add people and b) look at ways to increase participation.

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